Opportunities for UAS as Smart Inspectors in Environmental Monitoring Applications

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1 Opportunities for UAS as Smart Inspectors in Environmental Monitoring Applications Lammert Kooistra 1, Juha Suomalainen 1, Niels Anders 2, Jappe Franke 3, Harm Bartholomeus 1, Saskia Keesstra 2 and Sander Mücher 3 1: GRS - Wageningen University 2: SLM Wageningen University 3: Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2 Contents The Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing WUR Organization and people Platforms and sensors Environmental Monitoring Applications Agriculture and precision farming Habitat mapping and monitoring Coastal applications Outlook New applications and sensor NL Regulations Towards an UAS network

3 Scale requirements for monitoring Time decade Up-/Down- Scaling year quarter month Drought monitoring Biodiversity Climate change Land use week Climate change: carbon accounting (national government) Invasive species day hour Agricultural parcel: precision agriculture (farmer) Nature reserve: nature management (nature service) River catchments: flood protection (river & water board) Nature reserves: fire protection (forest service) local regional state/country continental global Structural monitoring service Event monitoring service Space

4 Developments in sensing technology Time decade Up-/Down- Scaling year quarter month week day hour local regional state/country continental global Space

5 Relevance of UAS for science: flexibility Close data availability gaps Use the complete EM spectrum Increase spatial detail Courtesy: IMST

6 Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility Objectives: Platform for dedicated and highquality experiments Calibration facilities and disseminating processing procedures to the UAS user community Test use in a broad range of applications like habitat monitoring, precision agriculture and land degradation assessment

7 Remote Sensing Science: UAS in a chain backward engineering

8 Hyperspectral Mapping Concept Aerialtronics Altura AT8 Programmable autonomous flight 2kg payload 5-10 min flight time Pushbroom spectrometer nm FWHM 9nm 20 lines/s Consumer RGB camera GPS/Inertia navigation System Accuracy: 4m / 0.25

9 Overview of processing chain Datacube Radiometric Processing Photo Radiometric Processing Photo Geometric Processing Datacube Geometric Processing High Resolution RGB Orthomosaic Digital Surface Model Georectified Hyperspectral Datacube

10 Result Experimental Field Dronten

11 Agriculture and precision farming 31 mei 11 juni 23 juni 5 juli 14 juli 19 aug 6 sept Optimal start Adjustment over the season Sensor observation

12 Potential at start: soil organic matter status

13 Mapping soil erosion status

14 Landslide displacement

15 Over growing season: crop monitoring Flight at 100m altitude Pixel size Orthophoto 0.018m Hyperspectral 0.500m June 6 June 14 July 5 July 17

16 Over growing season: crop monitoring Chl re = (780/710)-1

17 Over growing season: crop monitoring June 14 July 5

18 Identification of sugarbeet in potato Msc thesis Thomas Koot in cooperation with Farming Systems WUR Jan Willem Hofstee

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22 Habitat mapping and monitoring Forest cuts

23 Monitoring Deforestation Wekeromse Zand Google Earth Jappe Franke, Juha Suomalainen Philip Wenting

24 3D Model

25 Coral reef mapping island of Bonaire

26 Outlook WUR From mapping to monitoring Consistent signal in time (spatially and spectrally) Efficient processing chains -> real-time products Link UAS products with science fields and applications Integration with satellite and ground based sensors New UAS domains: forestry and thermal NL Regulations and towards Certification BNUC-S: Basic National UAS Certificate Small Aircraft Operations Manual Theory Ground Course and Flight Examination ILT project exemption + TUG

27 UAS in research and business: how to meet? Research <-> Commercial <-> End-users Exchange/flow of knowledge Sharing of protocols/best practices required Sharing and exchange of facilities regulatory frameworks Research Network Smart Inspectors (smartinspectors.net) IMST LWK NRW WUR Alterra RSRW BLGG HSRW sceme.de Terrasphere

28 Thank you for your attention

29 Current UAS networks Research oriented projects: Bioscope, Fieldcopter, Smart Inspectors and many more (limited duration) Regulation oriented platforms: national and EU Sector organized platforms: e.g., DARPAS in NL Scientific conferences and workshops: Workshop on UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation, Sept. 9th - 10th, 2013, Uni Cologne UAS event Eindhoven and Odense in 2013 UAV-g conference 4-6 Sept at Rostock University UAS session, EGU2014 conference, Vienna

30 Position of UAS networks Public/policy: RPAS regulation Regulation oriented platforms Who or what??? Sector platforms: e.g., DARPAS-NL Research: Innovations and solutions Research oriented projects Business/users: Products and services Conferences and workshops

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